And TINTIN will be...

His name is Thomas Sangster. I know it takes away my manliness to say this, but LOVE, ACTUALLY is one of my favorite rom-coms. I love that film and everybody (who is a romantic at heart, mind you) that I've shown the film or suggested it to has loved it. And Sangster is part of the reason that film works.
He played Liam Neeson's son in the movie and he's one of those kid actors who should be Dakota Fanning creepy... they come close, but they keep the childhood innocence that Fanning traded in to be an adult in a child's body.
I haven't seen him in any of his other films, but he was fantastic in LOVE, ACTUALLY. I can't wait to see what he does for Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg. Thanks to "Bob's Bitch Tits" for shooting me the link to the Daily Mail, which broke the story. Thoughts?

Whichever contributor uses the term "Rom-Com" in an article has to throw $100.00 into that jar. The proceeds will go to my therapy for living in a culture that allows the term "Rom-Com" to exist.
PS: "Rom-Com". Dammit!

If they are getting a third director involved, I wonder if he'll direct the second movie purely for marketing reasons. Stephen Spielberg's name will be a big pull for the first one. If Jackson does the second, then it'll be whatshisface? for the third. Saying that, Star Wars got away with it.

Putting aside that its years since it was popular and the film will inevitably stink the place up, early Tintin stories were packed full of racism and borderline fascist. I can't wait to see how that translates to big box office.

... and replaces it with a rectum full of dead animals and used contraceptives. God Love, Actually sucks. Think I'd rather strangle myself with the nerves that connect my brains to my eyeballs than ever see that flick again.

Funny, I don't remember Tintin - an INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER - being a fetus?
Why not Simon Pegg? Same hair colour (ginger) and even the same quiff style.
I'm pretty sure the film is going to be motion captured, but still.....
So who will they get for Captain Haddock?
I don't understand the hate for this idea...Tintin is HUGE in Europe and the stories are pretty compelling. If they aim to play it straight and not Starsky and Hutch it, then it'll do fine. Sticking to one of the less racist stories would be fine, however.
Tintin in the Congo (or White Master and the Brown Folk) probably should be firmly out of the running......

I dunno...I guess...I suppose. I think right now my main problem with this project is that it's going to be all motion capture shit. That, in my opinion, brings this thing down several notches. But I'll wait and see.

because she seems to be too smart, and emotionally mature for her age. Like Paul's sister in Dune, Fanning has taken the Spice Agony and now has the awareness of all the child actors inside her -- from Mickey Rooney to Dustin Diamond.

Tintin was always designed to be of vague European origin. But definitely not goddamn American. I remember a couple of years ago they thought of updating him to modern times as an American kid. I imagine Herge's wife must have Rowling-like control over this material, seeing as though she's rejected every single live-action proposal ever put to her.

...on a gangly 17-year-old's body.<p>That said, I've never heard of the guy, so he's probably a perfectly fine choice. I just hope they give him that frosted flip-do in the front that Tin-tin has that's been all the rage for the past several years.<p>I wonder if they'll make him French?

But I laughed a hell of a lot watching it. Bill Nighy makes everything better. And I would have loved to have seen a whole movie made out of the bit with this kid and Neeson. It would have been like Sleepless in Seattle injected with Cuite Honey joy... than Neeson would tell the kid he was fucked... to his face. God I loved that part. Shit. You got me admitting to liking this crap. Damn you HARRY! DAMN YOU!!!

Not me. I'll admit to not being cool enough to have read the comics, (actually I think I did have the moon adventure one when I was little but wouldn't have read it myself) but I totally hit up the toon. Love the Tin-tin.

now i don't get why people are complaining... if it's cgi mo-cap then why doe is matter what he looks like? i don't remember anyone complaiing that crispin glover wasn't a deformed 12 ft mutated beast when they cast him in beowulf... and another thing - andy serkis isn't a 24 ft gorilla in real life - tell jackson i want my money back!

I never heard of that snotnosed spooner punk Thomas Sangster. You can't be serious he will be Tin Tin. The only cool thing in Tin Tin comics was the dog. The rest of the characters sucked. If you do a live action at least cast someone who looks the part and not some McAwfully Cutekin lookalike. JFC, do movies suck these days.

This guy has the body of a little boy but he is of legal age. Instead of making movies he should be performing a public service of catering to the sexual needs of Peodophiles so they don't go out raping real kids.

I WANT TO FUCKING KILL THAT FILM!!!!!!!!!!!!! DIE RICHARD CURTIS, YOU CONDESENDING DIRTY OLD MAN, DIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'D NEVER WORK ON YOUR FILM AS EVEN AN EXTRA, NEVER!!!!!! NEXT YOU'LL BE TELLING US THAT DIRTY OLD GITS LIKE STEPTOE FROM STEPTOE AND SON CAN COP OFF WITH THE LIKES OF, DARE I SAY IT (BUT ONLY 'COS OF COURSE, YOU WOULD!), ELLEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNN PAAAAAAGE AND MAN EATING SLIPPERY WHEN WET FREAKING SHAAAARRXXX!!!!!!!! GET A REAL JOB YOU FACKING PREEEVREEEEERRRRRRTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm also a fan of Love, Actually: not just as a rom-com, but as a great holiday movie as well. As for this kid, he'll be great in it. I found out about Tintin when I used to visit my cousins in Montreal, and Tintin was huge there, sort of a Young Indiana Jones character. I'm looking forward to it.

Because i would never admit to seeing that loathsome, pox-rotted oozing pustule of a movie.
Yeah he was in it - along with a whole bunch of other shilling for the cash actors - I'm looking at you John Hannah, Ben Kingsley, Kevin McKidd and all the others grabbing that filthy lucre.
BTW - what happened to that little moppet that appeared in Gladiator? I mean since Mystic River. Cant be bothered to IMDB him...

on DVD when this comes out?
I remember as a kid being so obsessed with the animated series on HBO, that I'd miss the bus for school and have to have myh grandmother take me in every morning.I remeber this came on back to back with Encyclopedia, then it was Fraggle Rock and Babar.
I haven't been able to find vcr rips or dvds of that wonderful show.

That what it will be! Tin Tin was a great read when you were a kid...Investigative reporter (why do some of you think he was a kid - what drugs were you smoking - or injecting as the case may be) on Indy style adventures around the world...solving murders and mysteries...I really think this could work! Okay, stay away from the racist/fascist/and nazi stuff, and we may have a winner! This could be fun! You guys seem to hate on everything! Are you that angry? Did momma not love you? Were you never given breast milk? Do you want a hug? Awwww its sooo sad. Love, people...love. The actor they have chosen for the role? Actually does worry me - too young for a reporter. Which means this might be some teen Indy rip off which means it will suck which means I HATE THE FUCKING IDEA AND HATE ALL OF YOU, YOU HEAR ME?!?!?!?!

What the hell, because she's articulate she must not have the innocence of a child anymore? Precocious means you stop being a kid? What a load of shit. Unless you know something about her that isn't common knowledge, that's a stupid statement. She must be a woman though to scare frustrated virginal men so much.

Come on, I can't be the only one who wanted Laura Linney to ditch her psychotic brother and find love too (although holy shit, that guy she was dating became Xerxes in 300!). And who doesn't want to see Snape and Trelawney get their inevitable divorce only to reconcile? Anyone? Hellooooo? Fuck.

He goes out there to start work on the series next week. He must have a real love of mocap! A solid year working on Kong and god knows how long he did Gollum for. And of course he'll be back for Del Toro's The Hobbit! But for now he IS Captain Haddock, PJ confirmed it and so did Serkis.

Who the fuck is Tintin? I had to look it up to find out. Next time post a pic or brief history, don't automatically assume everyone is as much of geek as you are Quint. Could have been Rin Tin Tin for all I know. Geezus.

It's huge. Like Harry Potter huge. Is America falling into an ignorance trap?
<p>And I don't say this often, but if you don't like "Love, Actually," that says a lot more about you than the film, and it tells me you have no heart or are afraid to actually feel feelings.
<p>Oh, and all the "fat people" that get "made fun of" in Love, Actually end up the happiest. Yeah, Curtis is such a bigot.

Some friends and I saw a screening of Beowulf at an IMAX outside philadelphia last fall and Peter Jackson was there with his posse including Fran Walsh. Us nerds snagged the seats right in front of him. It was funny when the trailers started and one came up for I Am Legend and one of the people in his entourage said, "oh, Andrew shot that".
So anyway, 40 minutes in, we hear snoring, LOUD SNORING and sure enough it's PJ. I'm guessing he had been filming some long hours for the Lovely Bones in West Chester, but it's funny to think that maybe he was just that fucking bored. The snoring would subside and then come back, subside and then come back, again and again. It was twelve times more entertaining than the movie. I thought the movie was ok but when people ask how it was we always say "it's the movie that put peter jackson to sleep".

Maybe they just prefer Kikujiro... or Charlie Chaplin movies. or hell, even My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I could think of others, but you get the picture. One doesn't have to accept that a slightly flawed film with Hugh Grant in it is good to have feelings. Let alone feelings other than hate.

Alright Mr. Spielberg, I love you and all but this is just really silly. It appears you've never seen or read a Tintin comic in your life because Tintin is not a 6 year old kid, but an adult character. So, what's next ? The kid from The Ring films as Capt. Haddock ? Little Dakota Fanning as Bianca Castafiore ? Tell me, can't wait to hear about it.

...that I never say that kind of stuff about movies, but Love Actually is sort of like a DePalma/Tarantino/PTA type of movie festish fuckfest that is made for anybody who has ever loved a really good romantic comedy. It's sort of a be-all-end-all of the genre, and it's hard to deny. Not sure why you used those examples as mutually exclusive to Love Actually.

I was responding to "And I don't say this often, but if you don't like "Love, Actually," that says a lot more about you than the film, and it tells me you have no heart or are afraid to actually feel feelings." That statement did not contain the point you are making now. One way of looking at Love Actually (and yes this overlooks the one story that doesn't end happily) is that it is a joyous romp. A mega happy film. Your statement read to me that if people didn't like this mega happy film than they must not have feelings. The film I gave as examples were to show a range of other mega happy films that people might love that do not like Love Actually. Kikujiro is a very sophisticated art house film that I find to be liquid joy. It is absolutely nothing like Love Actually, but it is a very happy story. Chaplin films like The Kid and Hard Times are also very happy films that go for different ideas than Love Actually. Finally, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a family oriented romantic comedy, but it is a very down to earth one that people are more likely to relate to than the story of the writer who asks a woman to marry him who to that point he had not been able to speak to or understand. My point was that people can still be sentimental without subscribing to this particular brand of sentimentality. Also, if this was supposed to be Tarantino cinema fetish fuckfest for romantic comedies, than where are the Annie Hall nods? What about Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby? The Apartment? Shop Around The Corner? I mean, where's my bowl of Orgasmic soup? They're not there. Love Actually is zombie Robert Altman overdosing on Prozac if anything. I did enjoy the film, but it was for select members of the cast, not for the stories or directing. The reasons I like it have nothing to do with the reasons I LOVE all the omega happy/romantic comedies I've listed. So all I was saying was... well... what I said.

and this kid will be the voice of Temeraire! I mean, come on... a movie trilogy, directed by at least two of the greatest fantasy directors ever, based on a french/belgian comic strip?? I don't buy it. Jackson owns the movie rights to TEMERAIRE, and it would make total sense that he won't be directing all the movies himself (see STAR WARS). come on, Pete and Steve, admit it already!

Read my first comment using my second comment. I didn't change any point. It's furthering what I said. If there was confusion, it wasn't in the statement. And since you admit to actually liking "Love Actually," you fit right into the lovers of romantic comedies liking the movie. The reason it's not a film full of obvious references is because it's not "Date Movie," nor is it as immature as Tarantino is on his worst day. It's not a spoof or a parody, but an emotional sense of, as you would say, "liquid joy." It makes itself its own classic, not surviving off of making direct homages off of other films. Tarantino is a talented filmmaker, and his best still are littered with winks and nods, but "Kill Bill Volume 1" and "Death Proof" go too far in my opinion. Since I'm not a martial arts film fan or a car flick nut, those don't work for me, but if I were, I would be all over them, I'm sure. "Love Actually" can be the mother of all romantic comedies without being "Not Another Romantic Comedy."
<p>Btw, this isn't a fight. Not at all.

There were 9 stories in Love Actually. The Rickman/Thompson bit I would have liked if were longer and shaped out; The Kid in love story I wasn't crazy about but had good jokes; the one sad one I thought was fractured but very good; Martin Freeman: stunt cock was funny as hell I'll admit, Nighy was the only reason his story worked as well as it did, the lost in translation story was cute but a stretch, Keira Knightley ruined the story of the crush, the American Girls are easy was a nice jab at Euro-trip... but still reeked of Euro-Trip. The film was a mixed bag for me that worked in some places and really didn't in others. Saying I liked it is only a little better than saying Cabin Fever was rubbish, but the bit with the pancakes kid made me laugh = Cabin Fever was good. At least 65% of the film did not resonate at all with the reasons I like other romantic comedies.
Yes, you are right that I misread your adding to your original statement as changing it. Still, I disagree with the argument. It's like saying that if you didn't like Pulp Fiction then you must not like Shaft, The Bodyguard (The Sonny Chiba film), The Killers, Band of Outsiders and Chung King Express and everything else he has taken from over the years. And no, you don't have to make "Not Another Romantic Comedy" to capture the feel of those moments and themes. You gave Tarantino as an example and I used him as one. That doesn't matter though. My point is that liking romantic comedies does not determine if one is open about there feelings/has a heart/whatever. Liking straight dramas can be a sign of having feelings too. Crying at the end of Shadowlands seems like a good hint to me. You can call bullshit on Sleepless in Seattle and cry during Love Story and not be at any risk of being a soulless robot. Just because this movie celebrates Romantic Comedies doesn't mean people must like it. It has Hugh Grant being Hugh Grant in it and Keira Knightley going on about how pretty her boney ass is. Not being able to sit through those two is a sign that there is still hope for humanity if anything.
I don't think we're fighting. We're not kissing ass, but we've kept it civil. But then again, after reading some of the folks over in the youtube message boards... AICN's worst fecal throwing trolls seem quant to me.